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HP's Todd Bradley: Surface is no competition to us — Todd Bradley, the head of HP's PC business, does not view Microsoft's Surface tablet as a challenge. — “I'd hardly call Surface competition,” Bradley said in an interview with IDG Enterprise. He listed several reasons, “One, very limited distribution.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Talks Turkey in Silicon Valley — The sales pitch for Windows 8 started early on Wednesday night. — Before the doors to the ballroom had opened for Steve Ballmer's speech, Microsoft had an army of its store staff roaming the halls, showing off the Surface to anyone who would stop.

Rumor: Release of new iMacs may be delayed into 2013 — After Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed last month that there would be a “significant shortage” of the newly redesigned iMac, a report on Wednesday claims manufacturing difficulties may push back the all-in-one's launch date into next year.

RIM's Chief Is Confident of BlackBerry 10 Success — Thorsten Heins, the chief executive of Research In Motion, visited The New York Times readily tells his employees, developers and customers, BlackBerry 10, the name for the new phones and the software platform running it, is a very big bet for RIM.

Is Siri really Apple's future? — Siri is a promise. A promise of a new computing environment, enormously empowering to the ordinary user, a new paradigm in our evolving relationship with machines. Siri could change Apple's fortunes like iTunes and App Store...or end up being like the useful …

Google vs. Samsung — Samsung's recent success in mobile phones has been spectacular. It overtook Nokia for the top spot in overall unit sales. It went from having almost no smartphone sales to selling over 50 million units per quarter in a matter of two years. — It now accounts for nearly 40% of all industry profits.

Napster, Udacity, and the Academy — Fifteen years ago, a research group called The Fraunhofer Institute announced a new digital format for compressing movie files. This wasn't a terribly momentous invention, but it did have one interesting side effect: Fraunhofer also had to figure out how to compress the soundtrack.

One Simple Trick Could Disable a City's 4G Phone Network — High-speed LTE networks could be felled by a $650 piece of gear, says a new study. — Why It Matters — LTE networks can have 10 times the bandwidth of 3G, and are eyed as the basis for a new wave of data-rich applications worldwide.

How I Built It: Search for Doctor Leads to Creation of Yelp — Jeremy Stoppelman was a Harvard Business School student exploring ideas for promising startups when he caught the flu. His online search for a doctor eventually led to the creation of Yelp Inc., a website that allows users to read and post reviews on local businesses.

A Flickr Cofounder's Second Act Closes Shop — Glitch, a quirky, lovely online game, is closing its doors, and its maker, Tiny Speck, appears to be laying off about 30 employees—all except a “small core team.” — Tiny Speck was founded by Stewart Butterfield, the cofounder of Flickr …

iPad Mini Creates More Demand Than It Cannibalizes — Now that the iPad mini has arrived at market and is evidently selling well, there's no doubt that the original iPad will suffer some cannibalization by its smaller sibling. But according to a survey from Cowen and Co. it may turn out to be minor …

Spotify Attracts Investments From Coca-Cola and Fidelity — Coca-Cola is becoming a minority investor in Spotify, as part of a new round of financing that will bring in $100 million and value the streaming music service at about $3 billion. — Spotify has completed the financing round …